Monday, March 1, 2010

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Book review by Paul

The book I am telling you about is *The Hunger Games*. The maincharacters are Katniss and Peeta. It takes place in 12 districts, andthe Capitol (It isn’t considered a district). The time period is in afuture where there is no food. The place on the world is thought to bein North America. In the book districts 1-12 (not including theCapitol) are forced to send kids12-18 to the Capitol to fight. That is so because the districtsrebelled against the Capitol. The Capitol won, and as a punishment forrebelling the districts send their kids to fight. Katniss’s sister,Prim, is called to go, but Katniss is in so much shock she volunteersfor her sister. The boy’s are drawn next. A boy, Peeta, that Katnissknows very little of, is sent with her to fight.

I thought the book was amazing because it has lots of action, fighting,and adventure, but the book made me feel sad for a long time afterward.I would the book 100 out of ten not only from all the action, but thesadness too. My favorite part was when Katniss and Peeta were fightingto win against Cato, the 6 ft. tall 200 lbs. tribute that trained towin before he was old enough to enter for the games, and then wolveswalk out, but not just any wolves (real wolves would be consideredeasy) the Game Makers made them. They resembled all the dead tributes,and they bigger than normal wolves. I definitely recommend this book toclassmates, but it is pretty gruesome so you might not want to read it.